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SFFD Medics, SJ Good Samaritan Staffers See Hundreds Of Needy Patients On El Salvador Medical Mission
The medical mission was conducted the week of Feb. 20 in two rural communities in El Salvador.
February 28, 2028
SAN JULIÁN, El Salvador -- A group of Bay Area medical professionals took time out of their normally busy schedules to see a flood of needy patients over the course of a week-long medical mission in El Salvador.
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The group of 73 volunteers included doctors, nurses and staffers from Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose along with medics from the San Francisco Fire Department Station 49. It also included interpreters and support staff in a project put together by The Castañeda Kids Foundation, a charity based in Roseville, Calif.
The medical mission was conducted the week of Feb. 20 in two rural communities in El Salvador, where the foundation was originally started by a native Salvadoran couple whose San Francisco-born adult children and family now carry on the charity's work.
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